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Video Game Touted as Muslim Militant Recruiting Tool Revealed as Joke

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 26, 2006 - 11:52am.
The Hague - A video game that the U.S. government said was a "modded" version of Electronic Arts' "Battlefield 2" created by Muslim militants as a recruitment tool has been exposed to be a joke created by a 25-year-old Dutch gamer, Reuters reported.
tags: Games | EA | DOD | Battlefield | Religion | Pranks | Netherlands |

Defense Dept: Islamic Militant Video Game "Mods" Make U.S. Bad Guys

Authored by dmw on May 5, 2006 - 8:47am.
Washington - The U.S. Defense Department reports that it has discovered militant websites where popular combat video games have been modified so that young Muslim players can virtually take up arms against U.S. soldiers, Reuters reported. Electronic Arts' "Battlefield 2" is among the games for which tech-savvy militants have developed such "mods". "What we have seen is that any video game that comes out ... they'll modify it and change the game for their needs," said Defense Department public diplomacy specialist Dan Devlin. "I was just a boy when the infidels came to my village in Blackhawk helicopters," a narrator's voice says in the modded version of "Battlefield 2," which also features an inserted recording of George W. Bush's statement from Sept. 16, 2001: "This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take a while."
tags: Games | EA | DOD | Mods | Combat Games | Battlefield |